A light aircraft carrying the Philippine interior minister Jesse Robredo has crashed into the sea and reports say he and two other people are missing. Officials said the Cessna aircraft came down of Masbate province was trying to make an emergency landing. One person is said to have been rescued from the water.
Police in the Czech Republic have formally charged a man that they believe was planning a terrorist attack similar to that carried out in Norway last year by Anders Behring Breivik. The 29-year-old man was remained in custody. He was arrested in the eastern city of Ostrava more than a week ago. Rob Cameron reports from Prague.
More details are emerging on what appears to be a man obsessed with guns, explosives and last year's mass killings in Norway. Inside his flat, officers found what they said were enough weapons to kill dozens of people. The man had apparently assembled a remote controlled explosive device from an aircraft bomb, an assault rifle, pistol and 400 rounds of ammunition were also seized along with several police and prison guard uniforms. Police said the man was known to them. He had five previous convictions, one for blowing up a wooden shack near a petro station.
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The President of Ecuador Rafael Correa has been speaking a voted decision to offer diplomatic asylum to the Wikileak founder Julian Assange. In his weekly address, Mr. Correa said Ecuador had never argued that Mr. Assange shouldn't answer to the Swedish justice system, but he'd only called for a guarantee that there would be no subsequent extradition to a third country. Mr. Correa said that, since this didn't happen, Ecuador granted the asylum to Mr. Assange.